Spacecraft

The Space Launch System rocket could lift off on its voyage to lunar orbit as early as late August

Long considered trivial, the effects of rocket launches and reentering space debris on global warming and ozone loss could soon become too large to ignore

Seismology has been a long-overlooked tool in planetary exploration, but the success of NASA’s InSight lander has reignited the field

The announcement comes as NASA and Roscosmos are laying plans to transition to other orbital habitats

Organisms on Earth produce a wide array of durable “biofluorescent” materials. If those on other planets do, too, the Compact Color Biofinder should be able to detect them

Deep-field images of “empty” regions of the sky from JWST and other space telescopes are revealing more of the universe than we ever thought possible

The suits, supplied by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, will be used in NASA’s upcoming Artemis lunar missions and will protect space travellers from micrometeoroids, moon dust and even vomit

Breathtaking pictures that include the deepest-ever infrared view of ancient galaxies offer a preview of the spectacular science in store for the most powerful space observatory in history

A new galaxy-packed picture from the James Webb Space Telescope offers a chance to rekindle our wonder about the universe

Jane Rigby, Webb’s operations project scientist, discusses how NASA plans to wring as much science as possible from the $10-billion observatory

The spacecraft will arrive in lunar orbit in mid-November to help prepare for a future moon-orbiting outpost

Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere